Thank you moose, I don't know why I didn't do that earlier. I s'pose looking at the problem for too long had me wanting to do it one way so I ignored the correct way. Thanks a ton!
I'm on the last part of a homework problem and I'm not doing something right...
A student is running to catch a bus. When the student is 40m away, the bus begins accelerating from rest with a constant acceleration of .170m/s^2. What is the minimum speed she must run to catch the bus?
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